Chapter 125: Snatching a bride is a technical job

After a long time, a deep breath sounded in the hall - the entire court officials and the Jinshi present were breathing in surprise.

The ministers did not dare to speak. They knew that speaking at this time would make Empress Dowager Gao treat her as a target for venting her anger. The imperial examination candidates did not speak because they were in the hall and were surrounded by unfamiliar people. In extreme fear and shock, they did not know who to tell them.

During this period, Zhao Xing was always ignorant in his work, but at this time he was shocked more than anyone present. He did not expect that the new top scorer would be so bold. He dared to slap the emperor in front of the civil and military officials in the court, and after the slap, he was complacent and thought he was extremely wise.

After the new top scholar Zhan Miao slapped the royal family, only Prime Minister Wen Yanbo stood up and shouted: "All ministers will retreat. Three days later, Jin Mingchi will review it, and the court will dismiss the imperial court."

The sons retreated silently, leaving behind a shocked official in the palace.

After leaving the palace, Zhan Miao was proud, and several juren gathered around him and chatted with him. The guy was still boasting about how luxurious his house was. Zhao Xing inferred from the occasional words that he heard that this guy's house was converted into a modern area, which was about 8,000 square meters. Bandits from western Hunan were rampant, and this guy built his courtyard like a medieval castle. Not only did he have a high courtyard wall, but there were four tall arrow towers around the courtyard...

In fact, Zhao Xing has done less. According to modern archaeological excavations, the archery tower of Zhan Zhuangyuan's family covers an area of ​​about 6,000 square meters. Its residence covers an area of ​​about 5,300 square meters... There are also archery fields, valley fields, family members, servants, wives and concubines' residential courtyards, etc., which have become farmland and cannot be identified, so it is inconvenient to calculate.

Suddenly, Zhao Xing thought of the 20-meter-high gatehouse of Qingjing Temple in Quanzhou. Logically, the gatehouse was so tall that it seemed to be beyond the limit, but the temple was fine... No, it seems that I am timid. My house can be changed to a higher level or higher level.

Looking back at the famous "iron tower" in Bianliang City, Zhao Xing couldn't help but think: Can you peek at the emperor's daily life from that? Others can't do this, but Zhao Xing can do it because he has a telescope!

Zhou Bangshi was a little angry. Judging from his posture, he wanted to walk over and argue with Zhan Miao. Zhao Xing quickly looked at his collar and shook his head gently, indicating that he should not provoke him: " Stay away from this bastard. This guy is so arrogant. He doesn't even know where he dies in the future. You and I should better be farther away from him as possible."

Zhou Bangshi made several swallowing moves in a row, allowing Zhao Xing to pull him away. However, Zhan Miao saw Zhao Xing coming out from afar, bowing to the place, as if he was going to come over to say hello, but Zhao Xing ran outside with his escaping. When he saw the horse led by his servant, he lifted Zhou Bangshi without looking back, threw it on the horse, and then slapped the horse on the buttocks.

The horse ran, and Zhao Xing said "Ah" without looking back. It seemed that his actions just now were completely unintentional. He was stunned for a while and immediately spread his big feet to chase Zhou Bang's style, chasing his horse.

In fact, there is no need to chase the horse. The Song people ride horses, just horse boys lead the horses and sit on the horses themselves.

After running a few steps, I saw a group of guys dressed up in the family tearing up a new Jinshi. It seems that the famous "Rang's Pair" of the Song Dynasty was impatient to stage. The royal family took the lead in Jiying Hall, while the families of high-ranking officials and nobles in Bianliang City were waiting outside the palace to specifically intercept the new Jinshi who were not selected in the royal son-in-law selection activity.

In fact, the holiday time for a few days after the palace examination was the royal family's reasonableness and reserved for the people of Bianliang City in Tokyo to complete the great cause of "supporting a mate". Then the court held a review with Jin Mingchi to review the group of double-produced newcomers who "when the golden list was titled, the wedding night".

These people who "blocked the road" were blocking Zhao Xing's road. Zhao Xing couldn't stop and rushed into the crowd, knocking several family members away in succession, carrying the torn new Jinshi, and running away.

Behind Zhao Xing, a group of family members were still shouting: "You are the new Jinshi, don't panic and walk slowly. I have something to ask you?"

Some people even felt straightforward, so they simply omitted the statement and chased Zhao Xing directly and asked: "A new Jinshi, will you marry?"

Zhao Xing's running seemed to have opened the curtain of the riot. When the servants waiting outside Xuande Building saw that someone used force first, they immediately tore off the veil of warmth and silentness and directly took action to rob Mingming. The new Jinshi who had just left the palace was immediately involved in the crowd. Some of them were eagerly expecting, some were panicked, some were secretly happy, and some were at a loss...

Zhao Xing had a long strength and ran two streets to the door of Su Shi's house. Only then did he remember the spoils on his shoulders. He put down the new Jinshi carrying on his shoulders, straightened his waist and took a few breaths. At this time, Zhou Bangshi heard the footsteps behind him stop, and he (the horse boy) held the horse. Zhou Bangshi seemed to enjoy the feeling of riding a tall horse. He shook his body immediately, then turned the aloud back, and stopped the horse's hooves next to Zhao Xing and the new Jinshi.

The new Jinshi was carried on his shoulders by Zhao Xing and ran all the way. He was pushed by Zhao Xing's hard shoulders and almost vomited the overnight meal. Fortunately, he had been hungry in the main hall of the Ministry of Rites. He was in Jiying Hall just now. He was so excited. Although he had eaten some food, he didn't dare to eat too much, so he retching a few times and didn't vomit anything. When his stomach felt relieved, he straightened his waist and looked at Zhao Xing angrily.

Zhao Xing looked up at Zhou Bangshi riding on the horse, and then looked at the embarrassing appearance of the new Jinshi in front of him, and secretly laughed at him in his heart.

Zhou Bangshi can't ride a horse. What he calls riding is actually just a servant walking quickly with a horse. Because of his leisure, he rode on the horse with a graceful style of "seeing all the flowers in Chang'an in one day". The new Jinshi in front of him looked pale, untidy, messy and weak... If it weren't for a jade belt tied to his waist to show his identity as a new Jinshi, he would be no different from a street beggar.

Seeing the angry gaze of the new Jinshi, Zhao Xing looked around, no one?!

This is a noble residential area where officials live. Now major events have happened in the court. In addition, it is the day of the imperial examination, almost all officials have gone to court. A few officials who have not attended court brought Qi's family outside Xuande Building to prepare to start a robbery, so the alley seems to be deserted than before... It seems that, perhaps, the other party's anger can only be targeted at him.

Zhao Xing shrugged: "If you feel sorry, I will send you outside Xuande Building again!"

The new Jinshi was breathing evenly and shook his head: "How could I... have a virtuous wife, Qin Shi Xianglian, in my next family, how could I stop marrying her?"

Qin Xianglian and Zhao Xing were suddenly shocked and sweated.

Recalling carefully, it seems that Chen Shimei was from the Song Dynasty. After passing the imperial examination, she was "matched" by the man in front of her. Could it be the kind man in front of her?

Zhao Xing looked spinach-colored and asked with a wrinkled face: "Brother, your surname is not Chen, right?"

"The surname is Chen, and that is the second-level Chen Tao and Chen Xiaozhu. How could he be Chen? Xu Shixi, whose courtesy name is Boxiu, is third in the third class today!"

"It's better if it's not Chen Shimei," Zhao Xing murmured: "Don't change the direction of history because of my participation."

In fact, Zhao Xing remembered wrongly. Although Chen Shimei was slaughtered by Bao Zheng of the Song Dynasty with a guillotine, this person was an official in the Qing Dynasty and passed the Jinshi in the "Eighth Year of Shunzhi". Bao Zheng beheaded Chen Shimei - one of the two must travel through time. "Xianglian" is a common name used by Chinese women, especially the word "lian", such as Pan Jinlian. Therefore, it is not surprising that Qin Xianglian appeared in the Song Dynasty, but Chen Shimei could never appear.

The third place in the third place means that this guy is the new Tanhualang.

On the imperial examination list, if one subject passes the imperial examination list, he ranks third; if all three subjects are excellent, he is on the first list and is called the "Three Top Three".

But looking at this guy's charm, Zhao Xing could not connect him with the chic noun, Tanhualang. Overall, he was not as good as Zhou Bang's style.

Three new Jinshi were staring at me, thinking about the next polite words, and a crisp female voice sounded behind them: "Who said I was late? Who? Look, aren't there three new Jinshi waiting at my doorstep? God-given marriage - yards, take action!"

Zhao Xing and others turned their heads and saw a woman dressed in silver frocks, followed by a group of powerful men with Kong Wu, holding whistle sticks in their hands, blocking the alley.

"Run quickly", Zhou Bangshi rode on the horse and waved to Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing nodded secretly. This guy was quite loyal and didn't run away first. He glanced at Tanhualang with the corner of his eyes and found that Xu Shixi was slapping his clothes on his body, trying to avoid it in a panic look, while muttering in a low voice: "Who is Chen Shimei? Jin Ke didn't hear this name."

The servants on the opposite side walked two steps and found Zhao Xing's tall figure. They stopped hesitantly and began to whisper. Zhao Xing whispered to Tanhualang: "How is it? Do you want to be robbed? If you want, I will just lift my foot and leave?"

Although the wife of Tanhualang is also named Qin Xianglian, the other party did not realize Chen Shimei. He immediately shook his head and bowed to Zhao Xing: "Brother, save me, brother, save me!"

"I really don't want to?" Zhao Xing confirmed again. Zhou Bangshi was still riding on the horse, but he also whispered: "The great clan of the capital, Qi Da is not the same - only the destructive one wants to marry the daughter of the capital. How can the butterfly dream like this? I have to regret it for ten years. The flowers in the fog are raining, and there is no need to talk about old love... Brother Zhao, protect us and rush out."

The girl across the street didn't dare to rush up when she saw the servants. She urged her loudly unhappily - the Song Dynasty was all cultural people and she didn't have the habit of opening her mouth to swear words. Therefore, the girl's swearing words made Zhao Xing feel so poor that she was heartbroken. After tossing and turning, she was just two words "stick" and "pickled".

The word "pickled sapphire" is pure Chinese. After the Jin people invaded the Central Plains, they learned this word from the Song people, but the Manchus' pronunciation is inaccurate and they pronounced "pickled sapphire" as "sloppy". From then on, the word "sloppy" became an authentic Manchu language. When Manchus talked about this word, they felt that they were unique in culture.

The group of servants on the opposite side did not feel that they were "pickled" - this word means "useless waste" in the Song Dynasty. The servants only felt wronged, and one of them insisted: "Thirteen Niang, the majestic man on the opposite side could not be messed with - he was Zhao Digong, the tiger of Jingjie."

The Thirteenth Lady swayed past the house servant group, stood in front of Zhao Xing, tilted her head and looked at it for a while, and asked curiously: "You are the Jingjiehu who punched the eagle with one punch, turned around and beat the Liao people, and killed Bu Qing again? Have you been hit?"

Zhao Xing shrugged his shoulders, glanced at the group of servants provocatively, and threatened: "It seems that it's me. Speaking of Bu Qing, there should be no one else - you are not my opponents, I'm ruthless, let's get out of here!"

At this time, when the families of officials and families along the way heard the noise on the street, they all looked out. Su Xi's wife and Fan Zhongyan's granddaughter Fan Yiren stood up and waved to the girl opposite: "Chun Shisanniang, don't make a fuss. These three are my guests. If you are interested, you might as well go into the house to chat."

After saying this, the head that stretched out along the street shrank back. Chun Shisanniang was also a little embarrassed. She twisted her body and hesitated for a moment, but followed the group of people into Su Shi's home.

In the Song Dynasty, the title of the official wife was a total of eight levels. Su Xi was a kind-hearted person, a kind-hearted person, a kind-hearted person, a kind-hearted person, a kind-hearted person, and a kind-hearted person, and a kind-hearted person, and a kind-hearted person, and a wife was awarded the title of "Yueren", while Zhao Xing's wife Azhu could only be called the eighth level "Ru Ren".

When Zhao Xing entered the house, Su Hui came out to entertain him and Mrs. Wang also brought Chaoyun out to meet. The reason why they were so grand was that the girl opposite was a relative of the Su Shi family. Her surname was Huang, her father was Huang, and she was currently the deputy envoy of Jingdong Transportation. Her sister Yan Jiuniang married Su Shi, Su Che's second son. Huang Wei's uncle was Zhang Dun (pronounced as dun), the stubborn main general of the new party, who was aware of the Privy Council. He was called "Shujing Prime Minister" in the Song Dynasty, and was called the Minister of National Defense and Deputy Prime Minister in modern times.

Chun Shisanniang, this name is very charming. This girl who is about to marry is a famous female Jingjiehu in Bianliang City, Tokyo. Her father is an official in another place and cannot take care of her children, so Chun Shisanniang lives in the house of her uncle Zhang Dun. Zhang Dun's sister is Huang Shi's mother. He loves his nephew very much and is also too doting on this little girl, so Chun Shisanniang becomes the female domineering in the capital.

According to historical records, this Huang Wei was also kind-hearted. When Su Shi was exiled to Huangzhou, he passed through Sizhou (now Xuyi, Anhui). It was the New Year, and Su Shi spent all his money and was about to have dinner. Chaoyun hurried out to find the head of the family, but saw Dongpo alone, leaning against a stick under the tree, snow falling all over his body, looking at the lights in the distance, dazed in a daze.

The world is vast, with only Dongpo, and his figure is so thin and lonely.

Huang Wei was a Huaixi Shiju at that time, and he happened to be mooring here for a night. He accidentally saw Su Dongpo on the shore. Huang Wei came over to chat with him for a while before returning to the boat. He might have felt Su Dongpo's embarrassment. It was midnight when he finished the New Year's Eve dinner. Huang Wei arranged for his family to bring two Yangzhou kitchen wine brewing and a box of Yong pastry.

Huang Wei would not have thought that this little bit of food actually made the women and children of the Su family cheer, and they finally had food for the New Year...

This historical record is in the history of the Song Dynasty. With this friendship, the Su family and the Huang family are particularly close.

Now something big happened in the court. Zhang Dun was discussing affairs in the court, and no one was in charge of the family. Chun Shisanniang thought of making a guest appearance by herself, and she had a romantic robbery and rushing to play. Because her family did not support her, she set off late. Unexpectedly, she was not as good as a coincidence as she came sooner, and she met Zhao Xing and the other two at the door.

After learning about Zhao Xing and others' situation, Chun Shisan Niang was obviously unwilling to give up. Zhou Bangshi was riding on the horse just now, and her graceful look fell into her eyes. At this moment, the family was full of acquaintances and relatives, so she did not hide it and pointed at Zhou Bangshi and asked, "Well, what kind of Jinshi are you in? Have you won?"

Zhao Xing laughed happily: "The people who came out of Xuande Building today are all Jinshi, and none of them failed yet - this guy is the younger brother of Zhou Bangyan, a PhD in Imperial College. I don't know if he doesn't get married. He is in the second grade."

Chun Shisanniang blinked her eyes, thought for a long time, and asked Zhao Xing naively: "I rob him, do you want to stop him?"

Chun Shisanniang is fourteen years old. A little girl of this age is thinking about getting married. Zhao Xing laughed. He shook his head gently and said firmly: "Stop it- this is my friend. He doesn't want to, and no one can force it! Well, if I take action, all your servants will not work... Little girl, you are still young, why bother waiting for two years?"

Su Hui smiled meaningfully: "Next year is the main subject, and all the students who have not been admitted this year will stay in the capital. When the imperial examination will start next year, why not wait for another year? The candidates are all in the capital, so I just let Uncle Huang and Uncle Zhang find out about their character and understand them clearly. Wouldn't it be better?"

The name Su Shi here is chaotic, and Huang is Zhang Dun's nephew. Logically, these two people cannot be called by their peers. Huang Dun has a relative relationship with Su Shi, so he is called by his father. But on the other hand, Zhang Dun was indeed Su Shi's friend in his youth, but he cannot be called by his grandfather. Therefore, Su Shi's name sounds a bit confusing. However, no one here opposes this method of addressing.

Zhao Xing patted his chest and promised: "That's right! As long as you can wait, you will help you steal people next year. My friend, I don't want him to be wronged. Other people's friends, hehe, can just use it for "wrongfulness" and can also make favors with you, good things... Your yards are not brave, and I will be the ones you robbed people. At that time, you just choose, and if you like someone, I will take you home."

This is really an era of matching. Women in the Song Dynasty were not shy at all when talking about "robbing men". Chun Shisanniang made a decision with Zhao Xingding without hesitation: "Then you must come. Next year I will at least grab someone more handsome than the 'Horse Boy'!"

The horse riding boy is talking about Zhou Bang style.

Zhao Xing also wanted to tease the little girl, but Cheng Xia ran in and disrupted his plan.

"Teacher, you are indeed here... Just now, I went to Xuande Building and didn't find you... Teacher, Goryeo envoy Park In-kwang sent a message to him; Yangzhou also reported that the Japanese man Yuan Yeping had arrived in Yangzhou, and accompanied him was Major General Ji Shou-chung. It is said that Lord Park had met Yuan Yeping, and he was eager to meet the teacher. He also said: Since Ji Shou-chung came forward, the teacher probably had to invite more important people."

Zhao Xing quickly stood up and said goodbye. Seeing that the tide of bride snatching on the street was coming to an end, he also said goodbye, for fear that he would be snatched back to the point of being tortured by Chun Shisanniang later. Zhou Bangshi did not dare to stay. It was not safe for him to live alone in the temple, so he simply followed Zhao Xing back to the Zhao Mansion and chose a house to sleep with his head covered.

In the backyard, Chen Qing was still practicing cutting straw mats. After several days of training, he was already very skillful in cutting. Park In-kwang held his hands behind his back and after identifying Chen Qing's technique, he nodded and replied: "It's OK."

After a pause, Park Ing-kwang apologized to Zhao Xing again: "Mr. Zhao, Ing-kwang is not very nervous, I have caused trouble for you. I hope you can forgive me."

Zhao Xing waved his hand and first introduced the husband of Hedong Shi Chen Jichang and Chen Daxia to Park In-kwang, and then added lightly: "Mr. Park does not need to apologize - there is nothing to say to others. Since you have said it, it is me who should be responsible for those words, so you don't need to blame yourself."

Taking a deep breath, Zhao Xing replied: "This is the responsibility I deserve."

It was late at night, and Zhao Xing held a banquet and had a close conversation with Park In-kwang. When dinner was halfway through, Su Shi, who was dispersed in the court, received a message from Zhao Xing and rushed to Zhao's mansion to ask about the reason.

"This is the Zhou ritual, not the Han ritual, nor the Tang ritual." After hearing Zhao Xing explain the self-determination of etiquette, Su Shi explained: "In the Han Dynasty, this etiquette had declined and few people knew about it. In the Tang Dynasty, most people had never heard of this etiquette - this is the Zhou ritual, definitely the Zhou ritual."

"But... the Japanese all called this Han ritual, saying that it was the etiquette brought by the Chinese who fled to the Japanese island during the war in the Three Kingdoms. Why is it not the Han ritual?" Zhao Xing felt incredible.

Su Shi glanced at Zhao Xing with reproach, "I just said that there was such etiquette in the Han Dynasty, but this etiquette had declined. This etiquette was only used by vassals.

When the King of Qin unified the world, Prime Minister Li Si wrote a famous letter: "Abolish feudalism and establish counties; abolish well fields, open fields, and drives the same tracks, and writes the same texts". Since then, counties have become popular in the world, and China has not been heard of feudalism for a long time, so this kind of etiquette of "subjects and subordinates" is not allowed!"

Zhao Xing understood that although Su Shi said it profoundly, it translated into modern language: 'take responsibility' is a kind of feudal consciousness. The slave society did not take responsibility or blame. Everyone was the emperor's slaves, and officials were just the masters of the emperor. Who would be willing to take responsibility for "not his own property"? This is neither a slave nor a slave supervisor.

Su Shi was studious. Although he had made some appointments to follow the background of this ancient Zhou ritual from the classics, in the face of someone familiar with the inside story like Park Ing-gwang, he forgot to worry for Zhao Xing and enthusiastically asked about the detailed steps of the entire etiquette...

While asking Park In-kwang, Su Shi explained to Zhao Xing: Why did the ancients choose caesarean section as the most noble way of death for warriors? This is because ancient China believed that human souls were in their belly. The Chinese cultural circle inherited this view. The warriors believed that when it was necessary to show their souls to the outside, caesarean sections should be adopted to show everyone.

In addition to separatism, suicide rituals that were circulated in ancient China also included "slaughtering suicide". The rituals were originally solemn and solemn, but now they are all incomplete... When Su Shi said this, he smacked his lips with regret.

After Park In-kwang explained the entire ceremony, the former turned around and apologized to Zhao Xing again: "I heard that Gen Yeping was coming. I asked Guifeng to stay at him for a few days, and then went to the palace and Kanto. Lord Sugawara said that he could not stop it. He wrote you a letter specifically talking about his views on this matter.

Then, I went to Kanto again. This was what Lord Yuan, the Kanto Warrior Order, said: It is related to honor and cannot be stopped. He also wrote you a letter... Sorry, I did my best."

Lord Park took out two envelopes from his arms, placed them respectfully on the ground, and then pushed them to Zhao Xing. With the help of the flat push posture, he kowtowed to the ground and solemnly apologized to Zhao Xing.

The house where Zhao Xing is located was decorated by Japanese girls and completely imitated the Tang style, so everyone sat cross-legged on the ground.

Su Shi watched Park In-kwang perform such a simple Han ceremony with a little appreciation, and forgot about the dangers that Zhao Xing might encounter. Chen Qing was also present, but he knew that he had a shallow knowledge, so he did not dare to interrupt. He just stared at Park In-kwang's every move and wrote down all his actions.

Su Shi originally knew Park In-kwang. When Park In-kwang first went on a mission to the Song Dynasty, he gave Su Shi a Goryeo white pine fan. Su Shi wrote a poem to give him back. This poem records the history of the folding fan being introduced to China. Originally, Su Shi was a peer of Park In-kwang, but he did not expect that when he saw Park In-kwang this time, the other party gave Zhao Xing such a solemn etiquette - this complete set of ancient rituals with a strong dance charm, which made Su Shi enjoy watching it.

Zhao Xing's actions were also full of ancient meaning. He first turned his body to the side and said that he did not dare to bear the other party's etiquette. Then he bowed to pick up the letter and cut the letter sent by the Japanese minister Sugawara...

There are only three big words written on it: "Kill him."
Chapter completed!